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Oct
23

What Is Truth?

Category: Questions and Answers, What Is ECKANKAR? Tags: consciousness, ECK, Harold Klemp, truth

Those of you who have moved through several different levels of spiritual consciousness have found that your life can get rough at times. Why? Not because somebody in the dark alley is shooting arrows at you. It’s because you’re meeting yourself. And this is truth. Truth means meeting yourself.

It’s one of the paradoxes of truth. So many people claim to have truth. So many people claim to know it. But they can’t agree with each other about what truth is. And they’re ready to fight to the death to have their view of truth prevail.

This is wrong. Because if you have truth, you realize that another person has truth too, at his or her own level. There’s no reason to fight about it. Read More

Oct
19

By John Villemonte

How to Read The Worlds of ECK Chart

Category: Questions and Answers, What Is ECKANKAR? Tags: ECK Masters, ECKANKAR, God, heaven

This is a road map to the inner planes or heavens. You can use this chart to plan your spiritual travels or to better understand where you have been or what you have experienced.

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There is a bold line dividing the top half and lower half of the chart; this separates the lower worlds from the higher God Worlds of ECK. Thus, the chart shows which worlds are predominantly negative and which are positive (this is noted on the left side of the chart). The right side of the chart shows that the lower worlds are the training ground for Self-Realization and the higher worlds are the training ground for God-Realization. Read More

Oct
16

By John Villemonte

An Open Door

Category: Health and Healing, Your Stories Tags: ECK, Harold Klemp, Inner Master, love, Mahanta

By Mandy, New Zealand

I had just had surgery. Lying in my hospital bed after the operation, I heard a woman in the next room crying. I was not alone in my pain. My heart opened in compassion for the woman’s discomfort, and I hoped the nurse would get to her quickly and bring her some relief.

I needed some relief too. Now that the surgery was over, I knew it would take a long time for me to heal. I faced many months of recuperation.

I stared silently up at the ceiling, knowing that it would be difficult. I wasn’t sure I wanted to stay in my physical body. But as an ECKist, I also knew that all was in its rightful place. Every experience has a purpose. Read More

Oct
12

By John Villemonte

Spiritual Exercise: Restoring Harmony

Category: Spiritual Exercises Tags: consciousness, Harold Klemp, HU

ECKANKAR, HU, Protection, Healing By Harold Klemp

Whenever somebody is making it difficult for you at work, simply sing HU quietly to yourself. Let the other person vent his rage, and just wait and see what the ECK will do to work out the situation.

You’ll find that you know what to say or not to say, when to speak or be quiet, when and how to keep out of the individual’s way, or whether it will be necessary to appeal to the person’s supervisor to get him off your back.

When you run into these things, by all means sing HU to open yourself as a channel for God. You don’t use the HU to change the other person’s state of consciousness; you use it for your protection.

It surrounds you with a blanket of white light, and whatever is thrown at you must return to the sender. The person who attacks you often finds himself so busy with his own problems that he no longer has time to continue his attacks on you.

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Excerpted from The Spiritual Exercises of ECK, where more than 130 spiritual exercises like this can be found. Learn more about spiritual exercises.

Oct
9

By John Villemonte

ECKANKAR: HU and a Spiritual Master Help Heal a Despondent Woman

Category: HU, Videos Tags: dreams, Eckankar Seminars, Harold Klemp, HU

This clip is from Harold Klemp’s 2016 talk “The Subtle Golden Thread of Love.”

Oct
2

By John Villemonte

Light and Sound

Category: Soul Travel Tags: eagle, guardian angels, Harold Klemp, Light and Sound, protection

Photo by: Kristy Walker

Touch me

with inexplicably glorious

Music,

an instant in the rush of time,

scarcely a breath of wind.

Take me

far beyond the shores of my knowledge

to understanding,

above the mountains arched,

upward to the sky,

to knowingness.

Teach me

the silent voice heard in the whisper,

to hear the unspoken words

etched on the sands

of creation.

As the eagle dips its wings in gold,

the truth is learned,

the gift is received,

the Light,

the Sound.

—Pier Mercer

Awareness of Love and Protection

Rising high above our worries and doubts helps us gain the eagle’s perspective of life and truth. Here is a contemplation seed from Sri Harold Klemp to help you become an eagle, soaring into the spiritual heights of your own inner worlds. Read More

Sep
25

By John Villemonte

A Teacher Receives Protection via His Spiritual Master

Category: Inner Guidance and Intuition, Videos Tags: inner guidance, intuition, spiritual protection

This clip is from Harold Klemp’s 2016 talk “How Does the Holy Spirit Work?”

Sep
18

By John Villemonte

Showing Compassion

Category: Questions and Answers Tags: compassion, grieving, Harold Klemp, listening, loss of a family member

Purity of Soul_Rita Maupin By Harold Klemp

Q: Recently I’ve seen my friends going through tough experiences like a life phase of unfulfilled goals, the burden of too many duties, the injuries of a car accident, or the loss of a family member. I would love to learn more about compassion. How can I best support them?

A: The very worst thing one can say is “I know how you feel!”

You can’t know. No one else could ever possibly know, because that person is unique. There is no one else exactly like that in thought or feeling in the whole, wide world. Read More

Sep
11

By John Villemonte

Spiritual Exercise: Finding Yourself in Eternity

Category: Spiritual Exercises Tags: awareness, falling asleep, Harold Klemp, overcoming death, Spiritual Eye

By Harold Klemp

Every night upon retiring, relax on the bed. Watch the process of going to sleep. Keep your attention on the point between the eyebrows, the Spiritual Eye.

As your body relaxes and your mind settles down, that change in viewpoint takes place which we call sleep. Maintain the attitude of awareness. You will note your body getting quiet and your thoughts settling down. Hearing is often the last to leave the human consciousness. You will be detached on the borderline state, as though in a dream. Read More

Sep
4

By John Villemonte

Why I Am an ECKist

Category: Spiritual Experiences, Your Stories Tags: ECKANKAR, God's love, Soul, spiritual journey, spiritual tools

By Rodney, New York

I have been asked by a number of people, and I am sure many more wonder, why are you an ECKist? What does it mean to be an ECKist?

Well the textbook description of an ECKist is a person who is a member of Eckankar. To many I suppose it sounds strange, a name they have not heard before, unknown terms like Light and Sound, and Mahanta.

I won’t share here what ECKANKAR is in an academic sense, rather, I will share what it means to me, what my experience of almost 40 years has been. Read More